[autotravis]

Yep, static is the way to go if that's all you need. I didn't even hit #1 on HN but got 5,000+ page views in a few hours. All on a 128MB RAM VPS:http://linuxterm.com/static-sites-for-fun-and-savings.html

[ngokevin]

I believe I have touched #1, garnering 30,000+ views in a day. It was a static site on an Amazon Micro instance served with nginx, no hiccups. I have not minified any of my assets either.

[dangoldin]

Yep! I moved my blog over to Github pages which is just using Jekyll and it's been great. You can also pull in various JS widgets to add comments, etc.